Ryanair will dispute passenger’s claim he was sucked out of window

Ryanair has announced it will be disputing a passenger's claim that he was partially sucked out of a window during a flight from Greece to Germany in July. The incident left Ljubisa Karović, 61, severely injured when the window beside him shattered due to sudden depressurisation. Ryanair's CEO Michael O'Leary stated that while the passenger was "certainly sucked towards the window", he did not get out of the window.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the US is leading the investigation, alongside Boeing, engine manufacturer GE, and Ryanair. O'Leary emphasized that the passenger was "belted into the seat" and the airline would dispute that any part of his anatomy could bend out the window. In an interview, Karović's wife claimed that an unknown male passenger, believed to be Albanian, played a crucial role in rescuing her husband by attempting to block the window with a bag and suitcase.

O'Leary also disputed the reasons for a recent flight failure affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers, accusing National Air Traffic Services (Nats) of "telling lies to save his own skin".